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Made in Qatar - Short Films Programme
Walking home through the city at night as her husband returns from a trip, a woman senses that something invisible is quietly changing their once perfect marriage.
As her husband returns from a business trip, a woman makes her way home through the city at night. Reflecting on seven years of shared harmony, she recalls the closeness they built while sensing quiet shifts reshaping her from within. Aware of the microscopic changes in her own body, she recognises a growing dissonance in a once flawless bond, as the two of them slowly fall out of step for no reason either can name.

Credits

Director
Maysaa Almumin
Screenwriter
Maysaa Almumin
Producer
Nic Van der Bijl
Cinematographer
Mostafa Sheshtawy
Editor
James Griffiths

About the Director

Maysaa Almumin
Maysaa Almumin is a Kuwaiti filmmaker and academic based in Qatar. Trained as an architect in the UK, she brings a strong visual language to intimate, self-reflective stories centred on middle-aged Arab women navigating the edges of societal expectation. Her shorts have screened at festivals including Tampere, Cairo and Malmö Arab Film Festival, and ‘Bint Werdan’ streams on Netflix in the Middle E